Xu Guangqi was relieved to see that someone finally came out to speak up for Huang Han.

He said: "Lao Chen and Huang Han got along for three months, this son mixed in the peasants, craftsmen and did not care, he wanted to come to Beijing to sell sweet potatoes not to vent his anger, but to really sell the crops that the farmers had worked hard to grow at a good price." ”

Jin Sheng admires Huang Han from the bottom of his heart and hopes to help him, of course, because his friend Liu Zhilun has a good relationship with Huang Han.

At this time, he heard what Xu Guangqi meant, it turned out that Huang Han really wanted to sell sweet potatoes for money and was not willing to fall, so he had to bow his hand to Xu Guangqi and retreat.

Chongzhen's young man felt that Huang Han's whimsical ideas were very interesting, and wanted to see how this charging general helped the people sell their output, and said: "For the livelihood of the common people, this is a good deed!" I'm right. ”

"Your Majesty, the old minister has accepted Huang Han as a closed disciple, looking at what he has done during this time, the old minister is happy, I don't know if I can ask for a favor for him?"

"Aiqing, please speak."

"The old minister thinks that Huang Han is an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, so he implores His Majesty to bestow him with fame."

This is interesting, Chongzhen looked at the ministers and asked, "I don't know if you Aiqing has any suggestions." ”

Shoufu Zhou Yanru is also one of the representatives of the Donglin Party, how can he not take care of the old face of Xu Guangqi, a former party member, at this time, and hurriedly saluted: "Your Majesty, Huang Shoubei has made meritorious contributions to disaster relief, and he can give the scholar a meritorious name." ”

Wen Tiren, Liang Tingdong and other non-party people also came out and said: "The minister seconded the proposal!" ”

In this way, Huang Han, who didn't know what Bagu Wen was, was a scholar, and he could also wear a green shirt and a folding fan to be elegant, even if he didn't see a low-level civil official and a doctor from the identity of a fourth-rank military attaché, he didn't have to kneel and salute.

An incumbent military attache is not allowed to run around, and it is even more difficult to run to Beijing without permission, so Huang Han wrote a letter explaining that he was going to go to Beijing to guide the sale of roasted sweet potatoes and potato chips in person, hoping that his mentor would find a way.

Unexpectedly, Xu Guangqi actually asked for a decree in the early dynasty and got the edict of the Son of Heaven, and now Huang Han can come to the capital in a grand manner, but unfortunately it is not as decent as the last time, but to sell sweet potatoes.

The moment he received Xu Guangqi's reply, Huang Han remembered a classic line from a movie in later generations: "Being an official is not the master of the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes." ”

In fact, this sentence should be a common-sense mistake made by the screenwriter, and there is no such crop as sweet potatoes in the background of that movie.

Huang Han wanted to create a glorious image of himself, so he said in a high-profile manner in front of Zheng Guochang and the civil and military generals of Yongping Mansion: "When you are an official, you must be the master of the people, and rush to Beijing to sell sweet potatoes." ”

Zheng Guochang certainly intended to make a name for himself as a son-in-law-to-be, and he repeated Huang Han's words in public many times and praised them a lot.

It didn't take long for the people of Yongping Mansion to know that the main general of the "Red Banner Army" went to Beijing not to run for officials, but to sell sweet potatoes in order to promote the livelihood of the small people.

On October 21, Huang Han appeared outside the Guangqu Gate with four knights, all four of whom had common characteristics, well-developed limbs and simple minds.

They are martial artists, and their martial arts value is overwhelming, but their reading and literacy are really unsatisfactory, and they have not been able to write 200 words silently.

Therefore, although they are all old qualifications and have made many military exploits, they can only get rewards and silver, but they cannot be promoted, and now they are just small flag officers with no rank.

In order to encourage his subordinates to practice literature and martial arts, Huang Han stipulated that under normal circumstances, soldiers who could not master more than 200 words would become a small flag officer, and the only way to go further was to learn culture.

But there are always too many people who are really not suitable for reading and literacy, they do not have lofty pursuits, and they are easy to satisfy.

This time, Gu Kui, Yan Congyou, He Yongqing, and Lei Mingchun, who followed Huang Han into Beijing, were such people, and Huang Han took a fancy to their force value and kept them by his side.

Wang Zhanpeng, Zhang Yang, and Wang Zhicheng, who had been following him all the time, had been promoted to the general flag officer and the hundred household officers respectively because of the improvement of their cultural level and because of their outstanding military exploits.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, more than 160 young recruits were recruited within the "Red Banner Army" system.

Seventy or eighty percent of them are the children of martyrs, and dozens of them are direct family members of great craftsmen or active duty soldiers who have made military contributions.

Gu Mancang worked very hard after receiving the job offer from Huang Han himself, and now he has been promoted because of his contribution to the promotion of sweet potato and potato planting skills.

He not only took more than a dozen demonstration planting model fields but also worked hard to be literate, and An Xiaole, a soldier and a small flag officer, was a teacher in charge of cultural assistance, and in addition to the grain mancang, there were two farmers and four craftsmen who followed An Xiaole to learn arithmetic and literacy.

Gu Mancang learned the news of the recruitment of young students in the "Red Flag Army" from An Xiaole's mouth, and immediately thought that his eldest son Gu Rushan was already twelve years old, healthy and had a good brain, so he was eligible.

The Gu family was even more excited when they learned that they had the opportunity to become a young student of the majestic "Red Banner Army", worried that his father would be reluctant to send him to join the army, and begged many times.

Gu Mancang had originally considered letting his eldest son run for a future, and of course he spared no effort to see him so enthusiastic. He found one of the people in charge of recruiting and asked for help, because he knew Wang Zhicheng, one of the people in charge of recruitment.

At that time, it was Wang Zhicheng who arranged the work of planting demonstration fields for Gu Mancang, and finally Gu Rushan got a place as he wished.

Internal enrollment expansion is actually equivalent to going through the back door, which is very unfair to teenagers outside the system.

However, this is conducive to unity, and will give the "Red Banner Army" system a sense of superiority and increase a sense of identity, Huang Han has never believed that there is absolute fairness in the world, and those who can achieve relative fairness are already saints.

Huang Han is not a saint, he is very realistic and vulgar.

At present, he only has the interests of a small group in his eyes, and he needs to twist the sphere of influence of the "Red Banner Army" into a rope and let them fight for the collective interests of the "Red Banner Army".

When the sweet potatoes and potatoes are harvested, the young cadets and soldiers all participate in the labor without exception, and they are mainly engaged in management, statistics, and publicity, and they also have an important task, that is, to let the common people quickly master the methods of properly preserving sweet potatoes and potatoes.

These two things are not suitable for large-scale storage, and are more suitable for a family to store in a thermostatic cellar.

Therefore, Huang Han issued an order to all the growers, since the Huang family did not have a large warehouse for storing potatoes and sweet potatoes, and asked each household to sell the output in four times, one and a half months apart.

The common people understood this practice very well, and each of them went to sell a quarter of the total sweet potatoes and potatoes without exception to get real money.